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On Melbourne Street, in Tiverton West
What it's like at EX16 5LB: every home that has sold on Melbourne Street since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Melbourne Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 39 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 43, Melbourne StreetTerraced | Jun 2016 | £177,500 | 95 m² | £1,868/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47, Melbourne StreetTerraced | Apr 2023 | £235,000 | 112 m² | £2,098/m² | 4 |
| 49, Melbourne StreetTerraced | Feb 2020 | £180,000 | 96 m² | £1,875/m² | 3 |
| 51, Melbourne StreetTerraced | Feb 2021 | £190,000 | 110 m² | £1,727/m² | 4 |
| 53, Melbourne StreetTerraced | Sept 2023 | £225,000 | 99 m² | £2,273/m² | 3 |
| 55, Melbourne StreetTerraced | May 2011 | £130,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 57, Melbourne StreetTerraced | Jul 2012 | £139,500 | 97 m² | £1,438/m² | 4 |
| 59, Melbourne StreetTerraced | Apr 2018 | £175,000 | 96 m² | £1,823/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Tiverton Parkway, a drive away (9.6 km), with 683k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Fire Station, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 343); 11 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 47 minutes away by public transport (32 by car).
The nearest primary school is St John's Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 45% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Tiverton High School, 650 m away.
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons Daily Tiverton, 650 m away, with The Mini Market closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Castle Place Practice (450 m), with Tiverton Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Nail Envy is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford), 21 km away, rated outstanding by the CQC.
At its trust, 50% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 19 restaurants and cafés, 13 pubs and bars.
Tiverton Almshouse Trust is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and The Racehorse Inn the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 131 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 161 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 22% flats and 13% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Westexe Recreation Ground, 300 m away; for exercise, Paddling Pool (300 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Exeter is 19 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 76 km.
Most households own their home, 25% rent privately.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
52 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Tiverton and Minehead constituency: Rachel Gilmour MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 3,507 (7.4%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 39%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 16%, Labour 9%.
8 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near EX16 5LB →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Mid Devon since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 39 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 36 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 2.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 2.8% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 83.8% | 63.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.6% | 20.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 13.8% | 10.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 0.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Dunster Beach · about 36 min
Nearest: Grand Pier, Teignmouth · about 40 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.